Layered Birthday Wishes!

Welcome to this week's blog hop! The Stampendous Design Team was provided some great tools from the folks at Perfect Paper Crafting to use with our beautiful Stampendous products to create LOTS of wonderful ideas for you!

Tools For Crafting with Stampendous and Perfect Paper Crafting

Today I'm sharing a  card I designed for the July catalog. It pair the Dreamweaver Cardinal Stencil with one of Dreamweaver's Happy Birthday stencils. But wait, this doesn't look like a Cardinal! By using blue tones instead of reds, you can change the whole look of this stencil. I think he looks pretty good as a Blue Jay too!

Of course, if we are having a Blog Hop there must be Prizes!

Prizes

There will be 3 prize packages available during our hop! Each winner will have the chance to win one of the following prize packages, a Perfect Ruler and Pop-Up Die Set combo package, a Mini-Perfect Layers and Pop’cessories Die Set combo package, or a Perfect Airbrush, 1 – Holly Pattern Stencil and 1 –Holly Scroll Stencil combo package. US winners only, see Official Contest Rules for details.

Stampendous:

MMW811 Mixed Media White Paper

Dreamweaver:

DWLM110 Cardinal Stencil
DWLM150 Happy Birthday Small Stencil
DWLL332 Picasso Stencil

DWDEP Regular Embossing Paste

DWDPK Dreamweaver Palette Knife

DWLM2010 Paste Spreader

DWBHB-3 1/8" Brush #3 Blue Handle

DWGHB-6 1/4" Brush #6 Gold Handle
DWNHB-12 1/2" Brush #12 Natural Handle

Plus:
My Colors Cardstock - Winter Lake, Ocean Side
Memento Inks - Bahama Blue, Danube Blue, Rose Bud, Bamboo Leaves, Rich Cocoa
Brilliance Inks - Sunflower Yellow
Mini Perfect Layers
Foam Tape
Removable tape

Instructions:

Step 1:  Fold a 6" x 9 1/2" piece of Winter Lake cardstock in half to form an A6 card

Step 2: Tape the Cardinal stencil to a 2 1/4" x 3 1/4" piece of white cardstock and Happy Birthday to a 1 1/4" x 4" piece of white cardstock with removable tape
Step 3:  Use a palette knife and paste spreader to apply a coat of Regular embossing paste over the Cardinal, remove stencil and place in water for cleaning, let paste dry
Step 4:  Use  a 1/2" stencil brush to apply Bahama Blue ink to the Happy Birthday, add Danube Blue to the lower part of all the letters, remove stencil and place in water for cleaning
Step 5:  Place the clean, dry Cardinal stencil over the dry pasted image and use stencil brushes and the Picasso tool to apply color, remove stencil and place in water for cleaning

Step 6: Adhere the Cardinal to a mat of Winter Lake, use the Mini Perfect Layer tool to trim a 1/8" edge all around, adhere to a mat of Ocean Side, trim, then to a mat of white, trim, adhere to the upper left side of  the card front
Step 7:  Adhere the Happy Birthday to a mat of Winter Lake, then a mat of Ocean Side using the Mini Perfect Layer tool on each layer

Step 8: Use foam tape to add the Happy Birthday to the card front

Check out more great ideas:

Stampendous Blog

Kristine Reynolds

Jamie Martin

Lea Fritts

Louise Healy

Perfect Paper Crafting Blog

Happy Creating,

Louise